A Lyre Formed of Gum Paste and Spun Sugar
Ingredients
Directions
Procure a proper mould for the lyre.
Use gum paste to mold the lyre shape.
Form the strings and decorations with caramel sugar and royal icing.
Pipe the royal icing in designs as shown in the illustration.
Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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